Farner is Switzerland’s relevant, international, sustainable consulting and marketing agency. With six locations across the country, we realize projects for brands, businesses and policymakers – with a team of 300 experts covering every communication discipline.
With our flat hierarchy, every voice in the team is heard. We work co-creatively and collaboratively to find the ideal solution for each individual project. And make exciting themes spark life into brands and personalities.
Origins / History
Rudolf Farner established Switzerland’s first modern-format communications agency in 1951. With Confiserie Sprüngli and drinks brand Coca-Cola in its portfolio, Farner was strongly positioned from the start. It went on to work for brands such as Expo 64, Barbie, McDonald’s, Mitsubishi, the Swiss AIDS Federation and BAKOM, among many others. From the 1990s on, the agency set up teams in Bern, Basel, St.Gallen, Lausanne and Ticino. With six locations across Switzerland it is now the only full service agency with a nationwide presence.
Building on its origins as a public relations and public affairs agency, Farner has gradually expanded its portfolio of services to include corporate communications, brand strategy, digital services and marketing communications. The company has always kept pace with the latest trends and technologies, shaping the face of the communications industry.
Since 2016 various partner agencies have enhanced the expertise Farner provides in Switzerland. By acquiring agencies covering a range of disciplines, Farner has substantially expanded its network. Since 2022 the agency has been developing Team Farner as a leading European consulting and communications group. With comprehensive expertise in every area of modern communications, this network is now perfectly placed to take on the challenges of the future.
Responsibility
Over more than 70 years, sustainability has become part of this agency’s DNA . We take a broad view of sustainability as something that spans environmental, social and governance issues. We firmly believe this is an area where we can make a critical difference through our day-to-day work.
Our membership of leading national and international networks and organizations reflects our commitment to uphold high sustainability standards and share responsibility as a communications and advertising agency.
We constantly seek out creative, innovative solutions for our clients where sustainability is an integral aspect. In Kirchhoff, we have a cross-agency competence center for sustainability. We are therefore the only agency in Switzerland to offer fully integrated sustainability communications, from advertising strategy to PR work.
Our employees benefit from Equal-Salary Certification and experience first-hand how we advocate equal treatment of women and men in the media world and in public life. We also consciously seek to have the full spectrum of genders represented in advertising.
Rod created a big bang with its arrival on the Swiss advertising scene in 2007. And from the Bürglistrasse HQ, its communications experts still promote their services under the claim “A Bigger Bang for the Buck.” This small team simply loves delivering big offline output – and even more so online. With a strategy that dives that little bit deeper and a determination to put creative concepts to work in (social) media – so that they hit the spot with the target audience.
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Affective Advisory | Team Farner
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Team Farner is an alliance of leading consultancy firms that regard communications as the key success factor for an organization. The international alliance of agencies is led by successful communications firms and partners who are themselves active as consultants. As an international team of the brightest and best, Team Farner pulls together every communications discipline such as strategy, reputation management, sustainability communications, branding, brand management, corporate communications, public affairs, marketing communications, behavioral science, advertising, digital and commtech.
